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I have been infected with Personal Antivirus and it is really screwing with my computer. Malwarebytes anti-malware is about the fifth program I've tried to use and nothing has worked so far. The problem I'm getting is that it locks up during the installation. I'm trying to install it in safe mode and it locks up when it says either "extracting files" or "finishing installation". I really would appreciate it if someone could help me out. This has really put me in a major bind. Thank you for any help.

Welcome to Geek Police, my name is Origin and I will be helping you today. Please keep the following in mind:

If you do not get a reply from me or another helper within 2 days, please reply to your topic with the phrase BUMP

If you have any cracked/pirated software in your computer delete them or we will not help you.

Only follow advise from Geek Police Staff and not a regular member.

Do NOT run any tool without Geek Police supervision as it could hinder your system useless.

I notice that you have Spybot's TeaTimer running. While this is normally a wonderful tool to protect against hijackers, it can also interfere with HijackThis fixes. So please disable TeaTimer by doing the following:1) Run Spybot-S&D2) Go to the Mode menu, and make sure "Advanced Mode" is selected3) On the left hand side, choose Tools -> Resident4) Uncheck "Resident TeaTimer" and OK any promptsYou can reenable TeaTimer once your system is clean.

Please make sure Teatimer is disable before we do this, otherwise this fix will fail.

1. If you are using Firefox, make sure that your download settings are as follows:

* Tools->Options->Main tab * Set to "Always ask me where to Save the files".

2. During the download, rename Combofix to Combo-Fix as follows:

3. It is important you rename Combofix during the download, but not after.4. Please do not rename Combofix to other names, but only to the one indicated.5. Close any open browsers.6. We need to disable your local AV (Anti-virus) before running Combofix.

See HERE for how to disable your AV.

Double click on ComboFix.exe.

Follow the prompts. NOTE:

Allow combofix to run

Post C:\combofix.txt back here.

Note:Do not mouse click combofix's window whilst it's running. That may cause it to stall.

Thank you so much for helping me fix this. I did what you said. However, I cannot open Spybot search and destroy anymore. It just freezes up also. So, I just removed the program entirely before running combofix. Anyway, here is the combofix.txt...

Make sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish.

If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.

Once the program has loaded, select "Perform Quick Scan", then click Scan.

The scan may take some time to finish,so please be patient.

When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.

Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.

When disinfection is completed, a log will open in Notepad and you may be prompted to Restart. (See Note)

The log is automatically saved by MBAM and can be viewed by clicking the Logs tab in MBAM.

Note:If MBAM encounters a file that is difficult to remove, you will be presented with 1 of 2 prompts.Click OK to either and let MBAM proceed with the disinfection process.If asked to restart the computer, please do so immediately.